WELSH international Danny Collins looks set to leave Stoke City after being omitted from the club's 25-man Premier League squad list.
The 31 year-old defender, a £2.75m signing from Sunderland two years ago, has already been linked with possible moves to Ipswich and Nottingham Forest this summer.
Collins is currently away on international duty and in line to play against England at Wembley in next Tuesday evening's Euro 2012 qualifier.
But he has seemingly been surplus to requirements at the Britannia for some time after Marc Wilson took over the left-back berth earlier this year.
Danny Pugh, Michael Tonge and Tom Soares also look set for loan or long-term moves after being left out of Stoke's 25-man squad list.
Defender Andrew Davies, who recently played twice on loan at Crystal Palace before returning to training at Stoke yesterday, is the other senior absentee from Tony Pulis' nominated squad.
Belgian Florent Cuvelier is not named either, but at 18 is eligible to play without being named in the squad.
Pulis has given a vote of confidence to long-term injury victims Danny Higginbotham, Ricardo Fuller and Mama Sidibe by including them in his party.
Stoke's Europa League squad is the same as their Premier League line-up, except for the absence of Jonathan Woodgate and Mama Sidibe, to leave a 23-man party.
Woodgate's omission is an indication of Pulis's determination to nurse the former England international back to full fitness after a history of injury problems at Tottenham.
Full squad: Asmir Begovic, Danny Higginbotham, Robert Huth, Glenn Whelan, Jermaine Pennant, Kenwyne Jones, Ricardo Fuller, Mama Sidibe, Marc Wilson, Salif Diao, Ryan Shawcross, Dean Whitehead, Jon Walters, Rory Delap, Matthew Etherington, Carlo Nash, Andy Wilkinson, Thomas Sorensen, Ryan Shotton, Diego Arismendi, Jonathan Woodgate, Matthew Upson, Cameron Jerome, Wilson Palacios, Peter Crouch.
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